Cities are continually facing the challenge of building a sustainable tourist offer, where visitors and citizens integrate and live side by side, minimising the negative impact that tourism can create, redistributing its benefits and seeking a way to fit tourism into the urban dynamics. Such a vision implies developing new scenarios for empowering citizens and tourists, as well as creating stable links and channels with the local economy and offering the city’s services and other economic and productive activities in the urban environment.
The growth of tourism has to be accompanied by collective planning and discussions, to avoid imbalances, making it necessary to build a a permanent space for dialogue, reflection and work, for sharing with all the players involved, which is why innovative public-participation structures must be developed.